"chastity belt" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: chastity belts [plural]
Etymology: chastity + belt Etymology templates: {{com|en|chastity|belt}} chastity + belt Head templates: {{en-noun}} chastity belt (plural chastity belts)
  1. A belt-like garment, designed to be worn over the genitals and locked to prevent sexual intercourse, typically for long periods of time, to maintain chastity, prevent masturbation, or to enforce BDSM submission. Categories (topical): BDSM, Clothing, Sex, Torture Translations (belt-like garment): gouriz diorged (Breton), девствен пояс (devstven pojas) (Bulgarian), 貞操帶 (Chinese Cantonese), 贞操带 (zing¹ cou¹ daai²) (Chinese Cantonese), 貞操帶 (Chinese Mandarin), 贞操带 (zhēncāodài) (Chinese Mandarin), pás cudnosti [masculine] (Czech), kyskhedsbælte [neuter] (Danish), kuisheidsgordel [masculine] (Dutch), zono de ĉasteco (Esperanto), siveysvyö (Finnish), ceinture de chasteté [feminine] (French), Keuschheitsgürtel [masculine] (German), erényöv (Hungarian), cintura di castità [feminine] (Italian), 貞操帯 (teisōtai) (alt: ていそうたい) (Japanese), 정조대 (jeongjodae) (alt: 貞操帶) (Korean), kyskhetsbelte [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), kyskleiksbelte [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), pas cnoty [masculine] (Polish), cinto de castidade [masculine] (Portuguese), centură de castitate [feminine] (Romanian), пояс верности (pójas v'érnosti) [masculine] (Russian), пояс невинности (pójas n'evínnosti) [masculine] (Russian), cinturón de castidad [masculine] (Spanish), kyskhetsbälte [neuter] (Swedish), bekâret kemeri (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-chastity_belt-en-noun-GJ5IcsG4 Disambiguation of BDSM: 60 40 Disambiguation of Clothing: 100 0 Disambiguation of Sex: 45 55 Disambiguation of Torture: 77 23 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 94 6 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 91 9 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 92 8 Disambiguation of 'belt-like garment': 91 9
  2. (figurative) For a woman, refusal to have sex. Tags: figuratively Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-chastity_belt-en-noun-8r41-Nb7 Disambiguation of Sex: 45 55

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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "belt-like garment",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "kyskhetsbälte"
    },
    {
      "code": "tr",
      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "belt-like garment",
      "word": "bekâret kemeri"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "chastity belt"
  ],
  "word": "chastity belt"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

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